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2019 Prospect Preview: The Ghost of Tommy John Past, Present, and Future

Good morning LSB. Today you’re going to be playing the role of LoneStarBall Scrooge as I take you on a journey of the Rangers’ absolute suck luck with their young pitching health over the past couple of seasons. You can imagine it as the Dickens novella or as “Scrooged” (you can be Bill Murray) or as the one by the Muppets. Up to you. Who knows, by the end of this you might have a new lease on life, finally able to understand the true meaning of TINSTAAPP.

2017 and 2018 were obviously disappointing seasons from a big league standpoint, but they were peppered with frequent gut-punches of torn UCL’s by three of the Rangers’ top young arms.